MOBILE, Alabama - The main terminal of Anchorage's largest airport was evacuated Sunday after a man made comments about a bomb, which he later said were meant to be taken as a joke.

Peter Friesema was checking in at Ted Stevens International Airport with a friend late Saturday night when the Alaska Airlines ticket agent had put his sticker on his friend's luggage.

The agent, Courtney Grant, said it didn't matter.

"But my friend's bag has a bomb in it," the agent remembers him saying, according to a charging document the Anchorage Daily News reports. He recounted it to authorities slightly differently, more to the effect of "what if my friend's bag has a bomb in it?"

Police arrested Friesema on charges of making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct. Friesema was jailed at the Anchorage Correctional Complex with bail set at $5,000, airport manager John Parrott said by email.